Square, Taras Shevchenko in the town of Khmelnytsky - one of the most picturesque corners of the regional center, a favorite vacation spot of many hmelnitchan, especially youth and children. For more than a hundred years of its shady avenues and manicured flower gardens delight the eye with the townspeople. Over the XV-XVIII centuries, the area where now stretches Square, was actually the outskirts of the ancient Proskurov. Here stood a little nuts mighty oaks, and stretched around the meadow, which the local population for a long time used as pasture for livestock. Master Plan development Proskurov 1824, a place where there was a nut, taken by "a large trade area." Part of the oak trees cut down along the perimeter of the square built shops and warehouses, and the center left no room for trade carts. The area was named Bread and became the main venue for trade fairs and in Proskurov. Simultaneously, there are numerous attractions, were strolling actors came circus or zoo, day and night, many visitors took the tavern. Proskurov gradually grew, and soon the area became Bread is too small to hold fairs. In 1888, city officials decided to move the main shopping area close to the train station - on a vacant lot, where is located the body of the city hospital. Grain area given to the quartering of the 46 units of the Dnieper Infantry Regiment. Shops and warehouses converted under the barracks, and the spaces fairgrounds was used as a parade ground. It was on this parade ground had to march a young lieutenant, the future of the prominent Russian writer Alexander Kuprin. In 1893, the regiment moved into new barracks and on-site Grain Square pitched urban garden. In 1992, the park, which was named parks unveiled a monument to Taras Shevchenko. Since Pork Square became known to them. Shevchenko.